This is post number 200 at The Executive Coaching Blog. I just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has kindly commented or supported this work here and on various social media platforms (You can find me on Twitter, G+ and Facebook). I would like to pass on a particular… Continue Reading
There is more than one organisation that I have had the pleasure of working with over the years who have greeted me with something like, “We want to help improve the performance of the business through our people, we just don’t want to call it ‘coaching’”. Initially I was a bit taken aback. Then I… Continue Reading
I have written in this blog before about my limitations (mostly of motivation!) when it comes to DIY. It’s not an area in which I possess either much experience or skill and as a result I resort – probably too often – in finding someone who has both of these attributes, coupled with the desire… Continue Reading
This post digresses slightly from my usual theme of coaching but is still very much focused on great business performance. Let me introduce you to a story about Chase and Brandon. Following a fairly long car journey down the fascinating Central Valley of California, my family and I stopped at our planned “half-way house”: a… Continue Reading
I have heard the story of the artist Picasso and his ‘pen sketch on a napkin’ told in several ways and like many such stories I remain unsure if it was true or a convenient and amusing way to highlight a worthy point. With all that said, let me repeat a version of it here… Continue Reading
This weekend I drove past a local shopping parade and was really pleased to see that a shop which had long been empty was having the final touches applied to a re-fit. It looked clearly looked to me as if it will be open for business in the next week or two. Brilliant! I have… Continue Reading
You may rightly be thinking that in the current economic climate you need to ensure any money you spend on professional development for your staff is going to be well spent and is also likely to provide a return on your investment that you and the business can evidence. Well, the great news is that… Continue Reading
Coaching’s Home? In recent years I’ve found myself adding new “destinations” when building my customer lists. Initially that list consisted of one “destination”: Personnel, which quickly transmuted into Human Resources (HR). Next came L&D (Learning & development) and more recently Organisational Development (OD). All of these seem to have a respectable claim on being the… Continue Reading
I appreciate that I work in a sector that provides a high price-tag service. I am also acutely aware that the current economic climate makes it increasingly challenging for HR or L&D departments within organisations to justify such an expense, despite plenty of evidence to suggest the best companies continue to invest in their people during… Continue Reading
These are my top-level thoughts about a problem I have personally encountered and in discussion with many coaching business owners, understand to be both instantly recognisable and common to many entrepreneurs. It’s not my phrase but I have heard it most commonly referred to as “famine and feast”. The symptoms are easy to spot: the… Continue Reading